Don't laugh. Had to ask for help. Old age, fat fingers, a large gap since I've last done one and a wariness of pulling out tiny 40 year old wires.
Done enough of these before. Is this what old age is like?
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Don't laugh. Had to ask for help. Old age, fat fingers, a large gap since I've last done one and a wariness of pulling out tiny 40 year old wires.
Done enough of these before. Is this what old age is like?
www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/hardwa...
My only CPC with a working drive shed its belt last night as it never gets used. So here we go...
07.03.2026 13:02 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1THE THREADSMAN HAS JUST KNOCKED AT MY DOOR!! OH CHRIST JESUS NO!!!!
07.03.2026 12:36 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0'Critics of my animal farm have made life hell – Jodie Marsh'
07.03.2026 10:03 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The Jag scene seems one of the most poisonous around. Suspect that's why Kizza is at home there.
07.03.2026 09:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It is tolerated until it gets in her way. Which this lot might.
06.03.2026 23:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0CTM 644 monitors smell of memories, warm electronics and cancer (probably)
06.03.2026 23:20 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Protext!
06.03.2026 23:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Meanwhile the drive belt in my only 6128 with a functioning drive belt failed just after I loaded Protect. But I only just changed it.... Oh yeah, in 2010.
06.03.2026 22:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I may have been harsh on Dixons own brand 3 inch discs. The ones with this CPC are circa 1990 and appear to be Maxells not the dodgy patterned ones which fail.
06.03.2026 22:31 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I'd like to remind everyone that while the BBC banned Relax from #TOTP the Germans didn't think it went far enough so had to sex it up a bit. youtu.be/dQgkkVeO-5M?...
06.03.2026 21:39 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Who do you get to play the Mum of Alan Lake and Ralph Bates who are basically The Krays?
06.03.2026 20:15 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fuck yeah!
06.03.2026 18:55 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mrs Chinny is coming home with a 6128 she's found in an attic. Any rumours @johnrain.co.uk was also locked in there are completely false.
What treasure is heading my way?
I'm not in favour of this pivot back towards cold and damp and I demand to know what Keith Stammer is going to do about it
06.03.2026 17:32 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Everyone is dead and you'll feel terribly old. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaJC...
06.03.2026 16:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pathetic. I'm claiming first.
06.03.2026 15:42 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0Wow......
06.03.2026 13:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is the original version which flopped except in a few countries like Germany. Was re-recorded as Caribbean Queen at the record companies suggestion.
06.03.2026 12:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ah, this is the original version which flopped so it was re-recorded as Caribbean Queen.
06.03.2026 12:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What? EUROPEAN? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdCv...
06.03.2026 12:10 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 6 📌 0See I'm being encouraged. People want more.
06.03.2026 11:44 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Look Doris, I didn't come here to listen to bestial jungle noises and suggestive sex garbage. I want to go home"
06.03.2026 11:35 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Dear Scots. What's to stop your bagpipe music being as kicking as the Dutch bagpipe music? youtu.be/Vvn_SkSiurQ?...
06.03.2026 11:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0When Tenor is axed, think of all the Trevor Baker GIF's that will be lost!
06.03.2026 11:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0